PROVINCIAL NEWS
—♦ [united press association.] Dunedix, June 9. News has been received that Egmont, the defaulting secretary of Adelaide Building Society, has been sentenced to six years. Waipawa, June 8. Report has reached tbia place from Makeretu bush, which says that smoke and steam have for five months past (ever sir.ee the. disastrous bush fires) been issuing from the side of a hill adjoining Tuki Tnki river bed, and 200 feet hi«h, A settler has made an in-
spectioji of the spot and found what he believees to be a seam of coal 2ft. thick, and it is believed that this is on fire. If his conjectures are correct, the coal seam shonld be exteusive. A uumber of men are leaving this district for Kimberley. They are mostly possessed of a little means.
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Kumara Times, Issue 2997, 11 June 1886, Page 2
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